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I've been pulling a few allnighters trying to get a Dell Mini 10v to run both Snow Leopard and XP. Getting there!It's great having OS X on such a small computer.To get Snow Leopard on, I followed this guide: Snow Leopard with A06 Bios. One slight difference is that I created 2 partitions when setting up with Disk Utility: One Mac HFS and on FAT32. Snow Leopard went on the first one. It's a little flakey, but it works. I was messing about with it today.Truthfully, I need this device for running a digital mixing desk via WiFi and a range of other PC only audio programs. So that meant getting XP going again as well. This time I turned to a different guide: Installing XP using a USB Flash Drive. It works perfectly except after the Text section, I kept getting an error saying that hal.dll was corrupt or missing. Looking through forums, it seems that this is common with installing from USB. Ouch. All that time wasted.Still looking at forms revealed that this method worked with a single partition. This spurred me into looking at the boot.ini file from the USB drive on my Mac Pro.This revealed that the both mentions of partitions were for partition(1). Of course, because there is a bootloader on partition 1, and Snow Leopard on partition 2, this means Windows is actually on partition 3. So I changed both instances of partition(1) to read partition(3). Setup then completes successfully. I need to go back now and reset the bootloader, but all is good for now!